479 BCE - 478 BCE: Combined Greek operations in the Hellespont and Cyprus.

478 BCE: Samos becomes a member of the Delian League.

478 BCE: Many Cycladic states join the Athenian led Delian League as a defence against Persian agression.

478 BCE - 454 BCE: The treasury of the Delian League is kept on Delos until its removal to Athens.

478 BCE - 404 BCE: The Delian League in Greece, led by Athens.

476 BCE - 463 BCE: Delian League operations are led by Athenian commander Cimon

475 BCE: Athenian general Cimon drives the Dolopian pirates out of the Aegean island of Scyros.

475 BCE: Athenian general Cimon defeats Spartan general Pausanias and takes Byzantium.

475 BCE: Cimon captures Eion in Thrace for Athens.

472 BCE: Carystos forced to join the Delian League.

470 BCE - 469 BCE: Attempted secession of Naxos from the Delian League. It is defeated and enslaved.

467 BCE: The island of Naxos rebels against Athenian dominance of the Delian League.

466 BCE: Athenian general Cimon twice defeats the Persians at Eurymedon on the southern coast of Asia Minor.

465 BCE: Secession of Thasos.

465 BCE - 463 BCE: Athenian general Cimon conquers Chersonesus in Thrace and the north-Aegean island of Thasos.

464 BCE - 463 BCE: Earthquake in Sparta, followed by slave revolt. Surrender of Thasos.

462 BCE - 461 BCE: Radicalisation of democracy in Athens; Cimon exiled, Pericles comes to exercise influence.

460 BCE - 459 BCE: Megara switches sides to Athens; outbreak of war with the Peloponnesians & Athenians initially victorious.

457 BCE - 454 BCE: Large expedition to Egypt, to aid rebels against Persian rule.

456 BCE - 455 BCE: Athenians spread their power in northern Peloponnese.

454 BCE: Failure of Egyptian expedition; some Delian League members unsuccessfully revolt. Removal of League treasury from Delos to Athens.

451 BCE - 450 BCE: Peace between Argos and Sparta. Athens and Sparta conclude five-year truce.

450 BCE: Athenian general Cimon dies on Cyprus fighting the Persians.

447 BCE - 446 BCE: Boeotian cities revolt against Athens. Secessions in Euboea and Megara.

446 BCE - 445 BCE: Spartans invade Attica. Thirty Years' Peace between Athens and Sparta.

441 BCE: Revolt of Samos.

436 BCE - 435 BCE: Expedition of Pericles into the Black Sea. Corcyra/Epidamnus affair draws in Corinth and the Athenians.

433 BCE - 432 BCE: Athens concludes treaties with Italiot and Siceliot cities. Megarian decree commercially isolates Megara.

432 BCE: Secession of Potidaea involves Corinthians.

431 BCE - 404 BCE: The 2nd Peloponnesian War between Athens and Sparta (the Delian League and the Peloponnesian League) which involved all of Greece.

428 BCE: Mytilene on Lesbos unsuccessfully revolts against the Athenian domination of the Delian League.

427 BCE: First Athenian expedition to Sicily.

421 BCE: Peace of Nicias, a truce between the Delian and Peloponnesian Leagues.

421 BCE - 416 BCE: "Cold war' between Athens and Corinth.

415 BCE - 413 BCE: Great Athenian expedition to Sicily ends in failure.

413 BCE: Wholesale revolt of Delian League members; War recommences. Spartans and Corinthians gain advantage from League seccessions and help from the Persians.

404 BCE: Athens loses the Peloponnesian War; the Delian League is dissolved.